Belco presented 18 students with scholarships and awards totalling $153,750 for the coming academic year.Company president Andrew Parsons said the students were selected from 53 applicants, “all of whom had outstanding academic records”.“After a rigorous review and interview process, we selected those who best met our established criteria. We are pleased to support these young men and women, as they pursue their educations and look forward to seeing them bring their knowledge and talent back to Bermuda, and perhaps to Belco,” he said.The 18 who received scholarships or educational awards are as follows:lBelco apprentice Jamar Dill, who will attend Glasgow Caledonian University, having been awarded an internal scholarship for members of staff;lBermuda College student Kahnae Bean was given a Belco bursary award;lDalhousie University student Jonathan Pedro received the C Eugene Cox Scholarship for postgraduate engineering students;lBenedictine University student Gerri Landy, Columbia University student Michelle Dixon and Barry University student Jessica Binns, all received the Alfred T Oughton Scholarship for postgraduate students enrolled in business administration or other non-engineering programmes.Meanwhile, a handful of students enrolled in engineering, environmental science or related programmes were given Llewellyn Vorley Education Awards: Gary Smith of Loughborough University; Emily Dunne of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Matthew Tavares of Teeside University; Benjamin Groves of University of Central Lancashire; Kumar Grant of Penn State University; Rebecca Sharpe of University of Toronto; Catherine Wight of Mount Allison University; David (Vince) Hunt of University of Sunderland; Jainero Watts of Florida Institute of Technology; Shane Antonition of University of Waterloo and Jonathan Cox of Northeastern University.University of Rhode Island student Hunter Pitcher received the Llewellyn Vorley Scholarship.